The other day I was working outside and laid my wrenches down for about 5 minutes. It was not that hot out, about 80 to 85*. I went to pick up the
wrenches and got burned. I am like what is going on here. It is not that hot out here and I just laid them there a few minutes ago. I grabbed the temp
probe out of the tool box and checked the wrenches which read 145*. They had got that hot in just a few minutes. The UV index must have been off the
chart.

Wasn't too long ago that this site was filled with comments on the sun getting dimmer.
I seem to recall a thread by the title of "is the sun dying" and other such posts, it coincidentally coincided with erm, Autumn and progress through
the winter and now shock horror as summer is peaking the posts of 'a hotter sun' have been popping up.
It's the same type of contradictory posting that see's a rash of "Drought warnings!!!!!" then when summer is ending "Flood warnings!!!!".

I think it's all rather simple with the different sun intensity today compared to yesterday and its called memory, you dont remember exactly what it
was like and so today seems different to yesterday and whatever way you want to think it is going (dimmer or brighter) then it will seem like its
true.
The sun is still a big ball of burning crap, same temperature and same brightness as it always was.

Originally posted by keepithush
Wasn't too long ago that this site was filled with comments on the sun getting dimmer.
I seem to recall a thread by the title of "is the sun dying" and other such posts, it coincidentally coincided with erm, Autumn and progress through
the winter and now shock horror as summer is peaking the posts of 'a hotter sun' have been popping up.
It's the same type of contradictory posting that see's a rash of "Drought warnings!!!!!" then when summer is ending "Flood warnings!!!!".

I think it's all rather simple with the different sun intensity today compared to yesterday and its called memory, you dont remember exactly what it
was like and so today seems different to yesterday and whatever way you want to think it is going (dimmer or brighter) then it will seem like its
true.
The sun is still a big ball of burning crap, same temperature and same brightness as it always was.

See you in August for the magical "sun is getting dimmer!" threads.

Or maybe it's just getting more colder in the winter and more hotter in the summer than in the past years.

There has been a heat wave in parts of the UK this past week; the temperature was mostly below 90F.

But for three days I was ill will heat exhaustion even though I was indoors doing non physical work, I had difficulty cooling down.
I was having to drink so much that my stomach was full and I was still dehydrated. I couldn't see properly because of all the sweat pouring down
face.

In the end I would sit in my car for 30 mins with the AC on it's lowest setting to cool down.

Depletion of the Ozone brother, even though the hole in the ozone is located at the South Pole, the rest of the layer that blankets Earth is much
thinner than previously thought. The Ozone reflects most of the harmful radiation back out into space. The larger wavelength UV-A (browning
wavelength) are still getting through the problem is that the smaller wavelength UV-B (causes sunburn) and the UV-C (very dangerous) are getting
through the ozone in higher numbers, causing burns, carcinoma, ect.

The rays of the sun are very dangerous these days, take precautions such as sunscreen's that block the harmful UV-B and UV-C and you should get your
tan back, plus these harmful rays are also very damaging to the eyes, so make sure to wear sunglasses that are guaranteed to block this UV portion of
the spectrum.

www.ccohs.ca..." target="_blank" class="postlink">link to good info on Ultraviolet Radiation

Yea I'm not sure it's the sun that's different, I just think that the ozone layer has been depleted so more of the suns rays are getting through.
Just my 2 cents.. Also they(suntanning companies) have finally came out with sun block that stops not only the burning of the skin (UVA) but also the
UVB which is the one that actually does the inner skin damage..
It's funny I live in Clearwater Florida and really don't have much love for the sun at all. I have dated 25 year olds who have skin of a 35-40
year old just from sun bathing all the time.. Don't get me wrong a good tan looks good but the damage it does just isn't worth it..

It was a cool, partly cloudy day here in Canada yesterday, but every time the sun came out from behind a cloud the heat from the rays seemed to
penetrate deep down to the bone. It felt good in those small bursts but would have been very uncomfortable if the clouds didn't provide the
occasional relief. Our sun here recently reminds me of the way it felt down in the Dominican Republic.

For anyone having sunburn issues, there is a product that comes from Mexico that is absolutely the best thing for healing and protecting skin that has
had too much sun - the magic ingredient is Tepezcohuite. I have a small bottle of the pure stuff. I put a couple of drops on my palm and then
add some hand lotion, mix it together and apply it. There are also lotions available that already have the stuff in it. It soothes immediately and
also helps keep a tan longer.

Up here in Wyoming we have been having some strange weather. Flash floodings of a kind I have not seen in a long while, but more usual. Actually I
have only seen this kind of flash flooding in Florida, but not in Wyoming.

However, our temperature right now is 55 degrees, at 8 am. The Max today is supposed to be around 73, but at this time of the year it is normally
around 80-90 degrees. We had maybe a week or two of hot weather, but nothing too much with the max at around 83 degrees. I kind of like this weather
thou, what I don't like is that the emergency broadcasting keeps poping up on my tv. I do watch movies on tv.

Normally we don't get the emergency broadcasting as frequent as we have had it this winter/summer. I can't really call it summer when we have 55
degrees at this hour in the morning in what is supposed to be summer.

I'm in upstate ny by the Canadian border, and it should be in the 90's, but it's in the 60's and way cooler than other years. I also noticed this
year a lot of my flowers are really really late to bloom

There seems to be "pockets of intense heat". Last week end, I bbqed for my family. I have a thermometer (it is accurate) outside as well as an
indoor/outdoor thermometer inside with an outside remote sensor. Around 5:00 PM, I went out to begin bbqing and it was intensely hot, I glanced at the
thermometer was 107 degrees. I went in and checked the thermometer inside with the remote sensor and it read 106! Officially it was 101. I looked at
the records for the National Weather service located at the airport, about 3 miles away, and the high was 101. So either the NWS is not reporting the
actual temperature or it just simply was not 107 at the airport. I also checked the local weather channel and it showed 100 degrees.

I have seen this situation several times in the past. I think it was the summer before last, and I had several similar incidents. I remember once it
was 108 at 9:00 PM and the "official" temp was showing 98.

Perhaps that is the answer to your sunbathing issue, there was a pocket of intense heat at your location and that is why you burned.

If there are intese heat in pockets, then it means it could be because of the magnetic field of Earth in those areas are very weak. The magnetic
field of the Earth has been acting very strange lately, and there have been breaches in the magnetic field not seen before and which baffled
scientists because they happened in a way they thought it was not possible.

That could be the problem. Also, the regions closer to the ecuador, are closer to oceans which are warmer than on the north, and these parts of the
oceans will retain more heat than those in the north.

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